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Viswanathan Anand (pictured) defeats Boris Gelfand to win a fourth consecutive World Chess Championship. American author Madeline Miller wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel The Song of Achilles. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War. In response to the Houla massacre, high-ranking Syrian diplomats are expelled from several countries. Renato Corona, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, is convicted in an impeachment trial for non-disclosure of assets. Two earthquakes hit Northern Italy, leaving 24 people dead and 14,000 more homeless. The incumbent Democratic Congress gains a plurality in the Lesotho general election.